When we think of the French Alps, we think of beautiful villas, picturesque mountains, and decadent pleasures like chocolate, cheese and wine. But the Inuktun Europe (IE) team recently visited the area for a completely different endeavor. Responding to an invitation from EDF Energy, IE’s Technical Manager, Russell Fraser, and Business Development Manager, Julien Massé, travelled to an area near the Bournillon power plant in the French Alps to perform a penstock pipe inspection. Using the Versatrax 150™ system, they successfully demonstrated the crawler’s capabilities by driving the vehicle over a total distance of 160 metres, including maneuvering through a pipe branch at 100 metres, and climbing slippery slopes of up to 22 degrees.

See the unseen. It’s rare for us to get our hands on onboard camera footage from our multi-mission, modular (IM3) technology, let alone hear where Inuktun’s camera and crawler systems are being used, but today we’ve been afforded Versatrax 300™ reporting screenshots from an active inspection being performed by Accessential. Ryan Beech, director and Inuktun’s South African dealer, is quite pleased with the quality that the Spectrum 120HD™ camera is providing and looks forward to the final reports.

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